AIAG Honors Outstanding Volunteers at Annual Awards Dinner

DETROIT, Aug. 31, 2005 -- The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) honored its volunteers and member companies for their outstanding contributions to the automotive industry at last night's 19th annual AIAG Outstanding Achievement Awards Dinner at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center.

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AIAG honored one Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, 18 Individual Achievement Award recipients and two Corporate Achievement Award recipients for their merits in 2004. Their exceptional commitment and dedication produced industry guidelines and international standards for the global automotive supply chain to improve processes and reduce cost and complexity.

"Thanks to these volunteers, AIAG's influence and impact on the automotive industry continues to grow as we make progress in reducing costs and complexity; optimizing speed to market; and improving quality, health, safety and the environment for the supply chain," said Charles J. Koehn, AIAG acting executive director.

Peter Rosenfeld, executive vice president of procurement and supply at DaimlerChrysler Corp., delivered the event's keynote speech and congratulated each of the recipients.

  Outstanding Achievement Award Recipients

  Lifetime Achievement

  Sally L. Fuger            Automotive Industry Action Group

  Individual Achievement

  Robert H. Beller          General Motors Corp.
  Mark J. Braun             International Truck and Engine Corp.
  David A. Felinski         Association for Manufacturing Technology
  Robert R. Fox             General Motors Corp.
  Larry G. Graham           General Motors Corp.
  Paul Lewandowski          Lear Corp.
  Claudia Meeks             Ford Motor Co.
  Terry Onica               QAD Inc.
  Gary Paris                NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc.
  Bill Penn                 Covisint
  James E. Phillips         General Motors Corp.
  Todd Pronger              Robert Bosch Corp.
  Keith Radak               Detroit Diesel Corp.
  Barry W. Rutt             Volvo 3P
  Darrell Schwartz          Metaldyne
  Mark B. Tepen             Ford Motor Co.
  Kevin Wade                Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc.
  William D. Watt, Ph.D.    DaimlerChrysler Corp.

  Corporate Achievement
  IBM Corp.
  QAD Inc.

  About AIAG

Founded in 1982, AIAG is a globally recognized organization where OEMs and suppliers unite to address and resolve issues affecting the worldwide automotive supply chain. AIAG's goals are to reduce cost and complexity through collaboration; improve product quality, health, safety and the environment; and optimize speed to market throughout the supply chain. Headquartered in the metro Detroit area, its more than 1,500 member companies include North American, European and Asia-Pacific OEMs and suppliers to the automotive industry. Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.aiag.org/ .

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